A study has just been published highlighting that students from low-income families especially benefit financially from going to college. Here’s an excerpt:

The economic value of a college diploma is nearly twice as high for women from disadvantaged backgrounds as for women from privileged backgrounds, the findings show. For disadvantaged men, the lift is even greater:A college education is worth three times more for them than for privileged college-goers.

The report itself is not accessible to ELL’s. However, it would be easy to create a simple summary of its results.

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This is an important study, because it flies in the face of all those recent arguments AGAINST encouraging low-income students to attend college. The debt isn’t worth it, and they’re often under-prepared, the argument goes. The “college isn’t for everyone” mantra” is often silently directed at low-income students.